Questions to ask Emergency Medicine DO?

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ronnicus

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I have a meeting with an emergency medicine DO doctor, I was wondering what kind of questions might be interesting to ask him. Here's his bio:

A board certified and residency trained emergency physician, Dr. ___has practiced in and served as Emergency Department Medical Director at numerous facilities from small rural hospitals to Level I Trauma Centers. He has also held the positions of Chair and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Midwestern University, Chair and Member of the Medical Disciplinary Board of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Lecturer in Bioethics, Professionalism and Justice at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Coordinator for the Crescent Counties Foundation for Medical Care (PRO). He is the author of numerous publications in basic science and medicine and a board member for several charitable organizations.
His business interests include management of medicolegal and regulatory risk, statistical and numerical analysis, electronic medical record implementation and corporate mergers and acquisitions.
 
I would just read up a bit on issues facing EM physicians and see what kind of questions naturally come to mind. The ole cookie cutter questions are probably fine, but he probably gets asked those by every pre-med that crosses his path. It sounds like he's really interested in administration and ethics/medicolegal stuff, so it should be pretty easy to find topics in those areas that you're curious about. I'm of the thought process that having a genuine conversation is a lot better than just feigning interest in someone's career. Unless you're really genuinely interested in hearing him tell you shift work is nice, patients can be challenging, etc. etc. Just my 0.02. Good luck!
 
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